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Thursday, January 9, 2014

Friends From Afar

Christmas 2013 at Albion First United Methodist

I got a nice email last evening from Kim Pritt of Albion, New York, in which she expressed appreciation for having folks who had read this blog pray for their congregation as they vacate their historic building and find another place to worship.

Until yesterday the blog site she hosts for Albion First United Methodist Church had logged a total of 970 page visits. In just 24 hours that number went to 1027, thanks in part to some of you checking out more of their story.

About Me

I was born as child number eight in an Amish family in rural Nowata
County, Oklahoma. Our family moved to Stuarts Draft, Virginia, by train
in 1946.

At age 21 I enrolled in Eastern Mennonite College (now
University)in Harrisonburg to major in elementary education, and there
met the love of my life, Alma Jean Wert, a Home Economics major from
Juniata County, Pennsylvania. We both taught at Eastern Mennonite High
School, and I later became an ordained Mennonite minister. We have three
grown children and six grandchildren (the youngest being twins!). I
have a seminary degree as well as a master's degree in counseling and since
1988 have been a marriage and family counselor and pastor of a local
house church.

I had my first book published in 2007, Lasting Marriage:
The Owners' Manual, by Herald Press.